So if that was the proverbial “feeling out” game, the Warriors have to be feeling pretty good.

It’s not just that they won by 15 at home – though it was the most comfortable win by the Warriors in Cleveland’s last five visits to Oracle. But several things worked well for Cleveland and it didn’t really hurt the Warriors. And the things the Warriors feared, they were able to prevent them from hurting them.

What does that mean? The pressure is on the Cavs to make the adjustment. If they don’t, or if they do and it doesn’t work, this series will be over quick. If it does work, the Warriors still have their counters in place. They didn’t have to mix things up early like Oklahoma City made them do.

So Game 2, we get to see what kind of series we will have. Here are some things to look for, based on Game 1 …

Shaun Livingston, the OG, continued his relative domination of the Cavaliers. He led the Warriors with 20 points and is now 18-for-21 from the field in his three games against the Cavs this year.

This is a big problem moving forward. Livingston was a key player in last year’s Finals. And now he’s a matchup problem for the Cavaliers. Kyrie Irving and Matthew Dellavedova, the backup point guard, are too small to contest Livingston’s elongated pull-up. Plus since Livingston played 15 minutes WITH Stephen Curry, the Cavaliers spent a lot of time without their best talk perimeter defenders (Iman Shumpert or even LeBron James) unable to lock in on Livingston.

So what does Cleveland do? Hope Livingston starts missing or put a better defender on him and leave Kyrie on Curry? Livingston’s impact was even greater than his buckets.

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After a consistently good playoff run, Klay Thompson seemed poised to vindicate himself from last year’s Finals. But he looked like the same guy. On top of that, he was being defended by J.R. Smith. He can’t get shut down like that.

Granted, Thompson was probably feeling the effects of carrying the Warriors for the most critical stretches in last series. So his off game was understandable. But still, to score nine points felt like a set back. It was his lowest output of these playoffs, just the fourth time he has not scored at least 20.

Only once in these playoffs has he failed to score 20 in consecutive games, and that was Games 1 and 2 against Oklahoma City. If he doesn’t look like the Klay Thompson we’ve gotten used to, that could turn these Finals into a nail-biter pretty quick.

The Cavaliers are convinced their defense is the reason Thompson, and Curry for that matter, is why the Splash Brothers struggled. The Warriors don’t buy that for a second. But one more struggle game means Cleveland might be right — which means the Warriors would need the bench to dominate again.

We all know that is too much to ask the Warriors’ bench.

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The Cavaliers have been playing with pace all postseason and chucking threes at an historic rate. But in Game 1, they looked gassed trying to keep up with the Warriors, who all season have been the league’s fastest team.

Steve Kerr went super small at times, even dusted off Leandro Barbosa, to rev it up on Cleveland. It worked.

The Cavaliers had no answer for Barbosa in Game 1. That has to be scary thought for Cleveland. The odd part: Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said he wanted his team to play faster. Really?

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On Kevin Love’s first shot, Draymond Green gave a pretty lax closeout and Love hit the corner 3 in front of the Cavaliers’ bench.

After that, the Warriors kept a hand in his face, often with guards like Klay Thompson closing out hard. Love wound up pump-faking multiple times on what had been threes in previous series. The plan is obvious: take away the 3-pointer.

The Warriors know Love not only primarily makes open threes, he doesn’t even really take them unless he’s open. He is 30-for-61 in the playoffs on wide open threes (nearest defender more than 6 feet away). He is 11-for-31 when a defender is 4 to 6 feet away. When a defender is within 4 feet of Love, he has only taken 5 3-pointers in these playoffs, making two of them.

So the Warriors are putting wing players on Love to get a good contest. He countered Thursday by posting up those smaller players. And the Warriors are especially fine with that. They had a double team waiting for him, which helped him turn it over four times. Love was just 5-for-12 inside the arc.

Love has 46 post touches in the playoffs and the Cavaliers are getting .652 points per post touch, including two points out of his three post-ups in Game 1.

By comparison, Tristan Thompson has gotten .685 points per post touch and LeBron James has gotten 1.12 points per post touch. So, the Warriors are fine with Love posting up whenever he wants.

This is all pointing to Love having to come out of the game. He’s only helpful if the Cavaliers are going to push the pace and chuck threes. His shooting range spreads the floor, but that only matters when he can pull big men out of the key or get open looks against traditional power forwards not used to defending the three-point line.

The Cavaliers can’t score enough with Love taking two pointers in a methodical halfcourt set, especially at the rate he’s producing points. If the pace is slower and it is a half court game, the Cavaliers are paying the price on the defensive end with Love being on the floor. He played with good effort and was effective in spots on defense in Game 1. But as a steady diet, he is exploitable.

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Thompson was in foul trouble, so that was part of the reason, but Kerr had Curry on Kyrie Irving quite a bit. And Curry played well defensively. He stayed in front of Irving’s jerky moves and forced him into fade-away jumpers – which is the best you can expect from Irving. What you don’t want is Kyrie in the lane breaking down the defense.

Was that a reason for Curry’s offensive struggles? He didn’t look to be too tired with the ball in his hands.

There is a benefit to having Curry defend Kyrie — it forces the Çavaliers’ point guard to dribble too much. Each time Curry was on him, it became a let-me-show-the-MVP-something moment. While it is exciting to watch, it effectively stagnated the Cavaliers’ offense. He must score when he does that almost every time.

Yes, Curry does it, too, but it’s usually against a big man and he’s usually getting a 3 out of it. Kyrie is most likely going to settle for a long two. It’s just an offense killer – all because he seems to have something to prove against Curry.

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Andre Iguodala has topped 30 minutes of action five straight games, logging a total of 184:58 over that
span (37 minutes per game). It’s his longest streak of 30-plus-minutes games his season. It’s his longest since he logged 30 or more in seven straight last year this time.